Tough Probability Example

This question is hard to picture on paper. Could someone please help me visualize what is going on in this problem? Thanks in advance!! (The photo hase some issues and the textbook does not give a visual aid for this example.

In a forest there are n trees per hectacre evenly spaced. The thickness of each trunk is D. What is the distance of the wood not seen for the trees? (Find the probability that the line of sight will hit a trunk within a distance x.)

This is the part I cannot picture visually.
Imagine a circle with radius x around the observer. A portion, s(x), where 0 < s(x) < 1, is covered by trees. The observer moves a distance dx outward, and another circle is drawn.(Starting here I don't understand) There are 2(pi)n x dx trees growing in the annulus limited by these two circles. They hide a distance 2(pi)x n D dx or a fraction n D dx of the perimeter of the circle.

Re: Tough Probability Example

Originally Posted by zachd77

This question is hard to picture on paper. Could someone please help me visualize what is going on in this problem? Thanks in advance!! (The photo hase some issues and the textbook does not give a visual aid for this example.

In a forest there are n trees per hectacre evenly spaced. The thickness of each trunk is D. What is the distance of the wood not seen for the trees? (Find the probability that the line of sight will hit a trunk within a distance x.)

This is the part I cannot picture visually.
[B]

The problem is not well defined (e.g what is trunk's thickness?) but assuming:
a)The forest has infinite area.
b)The trunk has a shape of a circle(cylinder actually what you know what i mean) with diameter D.

Then you just have to find the probability the inside blue circle of the below image(for some x and then for all x's**) to cross at least one of the 4 circles that are in its corners:**The circle is produced by having a center of the blue circle, that moves in all the square area and in its perimeter and has a radius x.